Harlequin demonstrates its ongoing creative vitality and diversification
with the launch of its newest imprint, Hanover Square Press, headed by
Peter Joseph.

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Every imprimatur is shaped by the vision, passions, and expertise of its editorial director, and Joseph will draw on his experiences acquiring and editing fiction
and nonfiction as executive editor for Thomas Dunne
Books, where he worked with such luminaries as Peter
Ackroyd, Richard A. Clarke, Wilbur Smith, Robert Littell,
Dario Fo, Barbara Leaming, Henry Marsh, William
Shatner, and Senator Bernie Sanders.

“A new imprint within a big, established publisheroffers the best of both worlds,” says Joseph. “It meansthat a focused team canwork on a small, care-fully selected list of books,which will benefit fromthat major, internationalcompany’s expertise and in-frastructure.” Joseph’s deepperspective on the bookworld and high hopes forthe imprint is encapsulatedin it name. “Manhattan’sHanover Square was oncethe epicenter of publish-ing in America,” explainsJoseph. “It was even called ‘Printing House Square’because of the many booksellers, publishers, and print-ers based there during the seventeenth and earlyeighteenth centuries. I love the history of downtownManhattan, and as more publishers and agents move tothe neighborhood, I wanted to capture that sense of theongoing story of New York publishing.”The goal for Hanover Square Press, Joseph says, “is topublish titles that reach a wide readership, with an em-phasis on the types of big, memorable stories that addsomething new to their categories.” Will the imprint beshaped by his own personal reading preferences? “Abso-lutely. I’ve always read both fiction and nonfiction andam especially fascinated by little-known stories, whetherhistorical or contemporary, as well as the what-if scenar-ios that play out in some of the best speculative fiction.”Reflecting on his enthusiasm for Hanover SquarePress and his role as editorial director, Joseph observes,“Every book brings something new with it. A new story,a new place, a new piece of history, or a new experience.

It’s exciting to know that I get to bring new ideas into
the public conversation.”

Peter Joseph

LAUNCHING THE LIST

Hanover Square Press blasts off with three powerful titles:

• The Black Painting, by Neil Olson. Jan. 2018.

The death of a wealthy family’s pa-triarch rekindles the decades-oldunsolved theft of a prized (and possiblycursed) artwork—a self-portrait byFrancisco de Goya, which may well bethe fifteenth in his haunting series ofBlack Paintings. Neil Olson is the au-thor of The Icon and head of the literaryagency Donadio & Olson.

• Red River, by Amy Lloyd. Feb. 2018.

Inspired by the infamous case of the
“West Memphis
Three,” award-winning Canadian
author Amy Lloyd
tells the story of a
young schoolteacher
who falls for a man
on death row for
brutally murdering
a girl in Florida’s
Red River County. Believing him falsely accused, she
marries him and campaigns for his release, only to
wonder, after all, about his innocence.

• The Soul of a Thief, by Steven Hartov. Apr. 2018.

Steven Hartov served as a paratrooper in the Israeli
Defense Forces and is now in the New York Guard.

Coauthor of such best-selling military
nonfiction as In the Company of Heroes,
in this powerful novel he portrays a profoundly conflicted soldier concealing his
Jewish ethnicity while serving with an
SS commando unit in occupied France,
a character based on the little-known
150,000 Mischlinge in the German army.

The West Memphis Three—Jason Baldwin,
Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley Jr.—
convicted as teens in 1993 for the murders
of three Cub Scouts.